Cherry Tree Lane

Cherry Tree Lane (2010) is a British thriller directed by Paul Andrew Williams — watch online on iFILM. Mike and Christine are halfway through dinner, a bottle of wine open, waiting for their son Sebastian to come home from a football match. The doorbell rings. What follows is seventy minutes with no way out.

A group of young men forces its way in. Sebastian owes one of them, and they plan to wait. The wait is the film. Williams strips the usual genre mechanics down to almost nothing — minimal score, near-silent stretches — and lets the two leads and a suffocating domestic setting carry all the weight. Bleak and deliberately uncomfortable. Watch Cherry Tree Lane online on iFILM.